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Cinemagoing in Worktown: regional film audiences in 1930s Britain

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  • Stone , R. and Rowe , D.A. 1966 . The Measurement of Consumers's Expenditure in the UK 1920–1938 81 – 81 . Cambridge
  • Richards , Jeffrey . 1984 . The Age of the Dream Palace 11 – 12 . London
  • Rowson , Simon . 1936 . A statistical survey of the cinema industry in Great Britain in 1934 . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , 99 : 115 – 115 . D.C. Jones (1934) Social Survey of Merseyside (Liverpool), p. 281; J.P. Mayer (1948) British Cinemas and their Audiences (London), p. 252.
  • Mayer . British Cinemas and their Audiences 253 – 256 . London
  • Mackie , John , ed. 1933 . Edinburgh Cinema Enquiry 30 – 30 . Edinburgh C. Cameron, A.J. Lush & G. Meara (eds) (1943) Disinherited Youth (Edinburgh), pp. 100–109; Richard Ford (1939) Children in the Cinema (London), p. 223.
  • Eyles , Allen . 1975 . Oscar and the Odeons . Focus on Film , 22 : 38 – 57 .
  • Stevenson , John . 1977 . Social Conditions in Britain Between the Wars 44 – 44 . Harmondsworth Fenner Brockway (1932) Hungry England (London), p. 39.
  • See for instance Bakke E.W. The Unemployed Man London 1933 182 182
  • Richards , Jeffrey . 1984 . The Age of the Dream Palace London Rachael Low (1985) Film Making in 1930s Britain, (London).
  • Rowson , Simon . 1936 . A statistical survey of the cinema industry in Great Britain in 1934 . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , 99 : 115 – 115 .
  • Walton , John K. 1987 . Lancashire 283 – 324 . Manchester
  • Priestley , J.B. 1934 . English Journey , 1968 edn 397 – 402 . London
  • See for instance Roberts Robert The Classic Slum Harmondsworth 1973 (on Salford); Bill Naughton (1987) On the Pig's Back (Oxford) (on Bolton); Bill Naughton (1988) Saintly Billy (Oxford); Don Haworth (1986) Figures in a Bygone Landscape (London) (on Bacup) and (1990) Bright Morning (London); William Woodruff (1993) Billy Boy (Halifax) (on Blackburn); Elizabeth Roberts (1984) A Woman's Place (Oxford) (on Lancaster, Preston and Barrow).
  • Hoggart , Richard . 1958 . The Uses of Literacy 102 – 112 . Harmondsworth
  • Jones , Stephen C. 1987 . The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918–1939 8 – 8 . London Rosemary Clegg (1985) Odeon (Birmingham), passim.
  • Woodruff , William . 1993 . Billy Boy 130 – 130 . Halifax
  • Haworth , Don . Bright Morning 80 – 86 .
  • Harrisson , Tom . 1982 . “ Films and the home front ” . In Propaganda, Politics and Film Edited by: Pronay , N. and Spring , D.W. 235 – 235 . London in
  • Halliwell , Leslie . 1985 . Seats in All Parts 12 – 12 . London
  • The questionnaire replies are reprinted in full in Mass-Observation at the Movies Richards Jeffrey Sheridan Dorothy London 1987 41 136
  • For a similar snapshot of cinemagoing preference in the 1940s see Poole Julian British cinema attendance in wartime: audience preference at the Majestic, Macclesfield, 1939–1946 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 1987 77 15 34
  • Halliewell , Leslie . 1985 . Seats in All Parts 54 – 54 . London
  • Halliwell , Leslie . 1985 . Seats in All Parts 74 – 74 . London
  • Richards , Jeffrey and Sheridan , Dorothy , eds. 1987 . Mass-Observation at the Movies 29 – 30 . London
  • Kendall , Henry . 1960 . I Remember Romano's 115 – 115 . London
  • Halliwell , Leslie . 1985 . Seats in All Parts 7 – 7 . London 40, 42, 45, 61
  • Walton , John K. 1987 . Lancashire 351 – 351 . Manchester
  • Harris , Paul . 1973 . “ Social Leadership and Social Attitudes in Bolton 1919–39 ” . In Lancaster University PhD unpublished 405 – 405 .
  • Russell , Dave . 1987 . Popular Music in England, 1840–1914 240 – 240 . Manchester Ross McKibbin (1990) Ideologies of Class (Oxford), pp. 139–166.
  • Hutchison , J. 1937 . The Complete Kine Manager 157 – 158 . London
  • See in particular Jones Stephen G. The British Labour Movement and Film, 1918–1939 London 1987 8 8 and Bert Hogenkamp (1986) Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain 1929–1939 (London).
  • Le Mahieu , D.L. 1988 . A Culture for Democracy Oxford
  • Hutt , Allen . 1933 . The Condition of the Working Class in Britain 177 – 177 . London Ralph Bond, Cinema in the Thirties, in: Jon Clark et al. (eds) (1979) Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 1930s (London), p. 245; Gareth Stedman Jones (1983) Language of Class (Cambridge), pp. 179–238.
  • Jahoda , Marie . 1940 . Some socio-psychological problems of factory life . British Journal of Psychology , 31 : 191 – 200 . Jack Common (1938) The Freedom of the Streets (London).
  • Cross , Gary , ed. 1990 . Worktowners in Blackpool 132 – 135 . London
  • Joyce , Patrick . 1991 . Visions of the People Cambridge
  • Brindley , W.H. , ed. 1929 . The Soul of Manchester 33 – 38 . Manchester
  • Orwell , George . 1982 . Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Vol. 3 , 21 – 21 . Harmondsworth
  • On Fields and Formby see Richards Jeffrey The Age of the Dream Palace 169 206
  • Priestley , J.B. 1934 . English Journey 253 – 253 . London 1968
  • March 1961 . The Manchester Guardian March , 7
  • Randall , Alan and Seaton , Ray . 1974 . George Formby 15 – 15 . London
  • Gorer , Geoffrey . 1955 . Exploring English Character 302 – 303 . London
  • Dean , Basil . 1973 . Mind's Eye 212 – 212 . London
  • January 1963 . The Sunday Times January , 13
  • Harrisson , Tom . 1982 . “ Films and the home front ” . In Propaganda, Politics and Film Edited by: Pronay , N. and Spring , D.W. 238 – 238 . London in
  • 1936 . World Film News , I ( 3 ) : 5 – 5 .
  • August 1939 . The Spectator August , 18
  • Mitchell , W.R. 1971 . Lancashire Mill Town Traditions 8 – 9 . Clapham
  • Haworth , Don . Bright Morning 82 – 82 .

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